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Mount Scopus principal Rabbi James Kennard (left) with ALP candidate Josh Burns at Caulfield Hospital last Sunday. Photo: Simon Kosmer
April 4, 2019, 9:26 am
Mount Scopus heading to Caulfield?
MOUNT Scopus College's dream of moving the entire school to Caulfield could be confirmed within 18 months.
By Peter Kohn
From left: Zeddy Lawrence, David Southwick, Sorina Grasso and Dinesh Mathew. Photo: Peter Haskin
November 23, 2018, 3:10 pm
Caulfield candidates clash
AHEAD of Saturday's Victorian election, security and antisemitism were hot-button Jewish issues as candidates for Caulfield faced off at a forum held by The AJN and Zionism Victoria (ZV) at Beth Weizmann Community Centre.
By Peter Kohn
Former Greens federal leader Bob Brown (left) with Greens candidate for Caulfield Dinesh Mathew last week.
November 6, 2018, 1:10 pm
Caulfield candidates to face off in debate
The Greens candidate for Caulfield has confirmed he will take part in an election debate hosted by The AJN in conjunction with Zionism Victoria at Beth Weizmann on November 14.
Surrounded by supporters at the launch, from left, Deputy Premier James Merlino, Caulfield candidate Sorina Grasso and Labor frontbencher Philip Dalidakis. Photo: Peter Kohn
November 6, 2018, 12:28 pm
Challenger praises Andrews’ record
TWO Labor ministers -- one them Victoria's Deputy Premier -- were on hand to launch the campaign of Caulfield's ALP candidate Sorina Grasso.
Rabbi Yonatan Sadoff holds up a photo of Cecil and David Rosenthal. Photo: Peter Haskin
November 1, 2018, 5:06 pm
‘It could have been us’
IT is often said the worldwide Jewish community is like a large extended family. So on Monday evening, when some 60 Melbourne worshippers ached to express their grief for the 11 murdered US congregants at Tree of Life, a Masorti (Conservative) synagogue in Pittsburgh, their destination was Kehilat Nitzan, Melbourne’s Conservative shule.
By Peter Kohn
In a rare moment of unity Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Cheryl Edwards, who led the advisory group for the apology, came together to apologise to survivors of institutional child sexual abuse. Photo: AAP Image
October 25, 2018, 12:01 am
The national apology
Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologised to all victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse,
By AJN STAFF
Asher Judah and David Southwick with UJEB Merkaz Bentleigh students, Paloma Schwartz-Moyano and Dante Akbarzadeh.
October 11, 2018, 12:01 am
Pollies splash the cash
IT smells like election season, with members from both sides of politics pledging hundreds of thousands of dollars to Jewish communal projects and organisations over the past few days.
By Rebecca Davis
Kate Ashmor.
September 7, 2018, 12:01 am
Ashmor to take on Burns
THE battle for the Melbourne bayside seat of Macnamara (Melbourne Ports) at the next federal election will be fought out between two well-known members of the Jewish community after community figure Kate Ashmor won what she called "a tough and democratic preselection" for the Liberals.
Dvir Abramovich raises Israel's flag at St Kilda Town Hall. Photo: Sav Schulman
September 6, 2018, 12:01 am
A Blue-and-white new year
BLUE sky and white clouds matched the colours of Israel's flag as it was hoisted on a community flagpole at St Kilda Town Hall on Monday morning – believed to be the first time the Israeli banner has flown on an Australian municipal flagpole.
By Peter Kohn
Rebbetzin Dina Kahn presents Premier Daniel Andrews with a gift on behalf of the RCV. Photo: Peter Haskin
September 3, 2018, 12:00 am
Shofar sounds at Victorian Parliament
The echoes of the shofar could be heard in the halls of State Parliament last Thursday as the rabbis and rebbetzins of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) met with Premier Daniel Andrews and Leader of the Opposition, Matthew Guy.
By Rebecca Davis
Caulfield MP David Southwick.
August 23, 2018, 12:00 am
No justification for using the ‘N’ word
Politicians should know better about invoking these references and analogies given we have one of the largest Holocaust survivor communities anywhere in the world.
Julie Bishop speaking at Beth Weizmann Community Centre in Melbourne last year. Photo: Ren Rizzolo
August 15, 2018, 3:25 pm
All set for Melbourne breakfast with Bishop
The Victorian Liberal Friends of Israel are hosting a Pre-Rosh Hashanah Breakfast with Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop on August 31 in Caulfield South, Melbourne.
By Rebecca Davis
The launch of Victorian Liberal Friends of Israel. Photo: Greg Every
July 29, 2018, 12:01 am
Liberal friends rally for Israel
MORE than 300 supporters gathered at Central Shule in Caulfield, as Victorian Liberals, including federal Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, relaunched Victorian Liberal Friends of Israel.
By Peter Kohn
At the funding announcement at St Kilda Shule, clockwise from top left: State MP David Southwick, immediate past president of South Caulfield Shule Zeev Duieb, Senator James Paterson, Rabbi Yaakov Glasman of St Kilda Shule, Tim Wilson MP and Rabbi Dovid Rubinfeld of Melbourne Hebrew Congregation.
May 31, 2018, 12:00 am
Security funding boost for Melbourne shules
Funding for security upgrades at Melbourne shules, Jewish schools and organisations will receive a boost of more than $350,000 from the federal government's Safer Communities Fund.
By Peter Kohn
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